Building Against The Odds

George and Lysa Goh thought they struck gold, when they bought a plot of land off Holland Road a few years ago. The 2000 sq m plot of land had a house in the middle, built in the 1930s for a British civil servant.

"We both liked conservation houses, and this was one of the last pieces of land for sale in this part of Singapore," says Mrs Goh, a full-time mum.

But then came problems. The triangular-shaped land was difficult to …